Changelog

What's new

Written for the people who run schools, not for the people who wrote the code.

Running 2026.9Service statusRSS

2026.9

Currentrolling out

Messaging between schools and families, your own sending domain, and a referral programme.

New8
  • Message families from inside Schoolory. Each student gets a thread with their family, each class gets one for announcements, and staff can message each other. Parents reply from the family portal — no app to install.
  • Parents now sign in to the portal with a code sent to their email, so every message has a name against it. A forwarded link no longer lets someone else read a family's messages.
  • Email alerts when a message arrives. A busy back-and-forth sends one email, not ten, and nothing is sent to someone who is already reading the thread.
  • Class conversations follow the class list on their own. When a student leaves a class, their family stops seeing it — there is nothing for you to remember to switch off.
  • Parent-to-parent groups, off unless you turn them on. When on, a parent can only start a group with families from a class they share — never the whole school.
  • Refer another school and earn 20% of their first invoice, capped. You are credited when they actually pay, not when they start a trial. Your link is in Settings → Refer a school.
  • Send email from your own domain. Add it in Settings → Email, publish the two DNS records we show you, and we verify them with our email provider before switching over. Until then mail goes out from us — either way, replies come back to your school's inbox.
  • Confirm your email address when you sign up. Until you do, the workspace is read-only. It is the address we use for password resets, invoices and any warning before data is deleted, so a typo there is worth catching on day one.

2026.8

rolling out

Card payments, online classes, WhatsApp and a help center.

New10
  • Parents can pay tuition by card. Connect your own Stripe account in Settings → Card payments; the money goes straight to you, never through us.
  • Autopay: parents can save a card and have invoices charged on the due date. A failed card is retried up to three times, then left for you to follow up.
  • Online classes get their own meeting link — Google Meet, Zoom or Teams, one link for the whole course, shown in the parent app and in class reminder emails.
  • WhatsApp reminders for tuition, sent alongside email rather than instead of it.
  • Help center with searchable guides, and support tickets you can raise from inside the app.
  • This changelog, and a status page showing whether the service is healthy right now.
  • Manage your own subscription: apply a promo code, update the card on file, download invoices and receipts, and cancel — all from Settings → Plan & billing, without emailing us.
  • Add-ons can be bought and removed from the billing page. They're prorated from the day you add them, so you don't pay a full month for a few days.
  • Reminder emails before anything changes: trial ending, annual renewal, access ending after a cancellation, and — most importantly — before data is deleted.
  • Make-up lessons. When you mark a student excused, the lesson they are owed is recorded automatically — with the class and date it was for. Book it into another session, mark it taken, or waive it with a reason. Parents see the same count you do, which is usually where the argument was.
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  • Cancelling now means what our terms say: full access until the end of the period you paid for, then read-only, then the database is deleted 30 days later unless you reactivate.
  • Integration keys and plan prices are now managed in the platform console instead of requiring a redeploy.
Fixed1
  • The add-on prices on our pricing page are now generated from the same catalogue that bills you, so the page cannot advertise something you can't buy.

2026.7

28 July 2026

Schoolory launches: your own database, your own currency.

New5
  • Every school gets its own database, in the region you choose. Nothing is shared between schools.
  • Currency and time zone are set per school, so “today” and “what you owe” mean the right thing wherever you are.
  • Sign up, pick a plan and be running in a few minutes — 14 days free, no card.
  • Editable email templates for tuition reminders, receipts, class reminders and progress reports.
  • AI assistant with your own Anthropic key, and a usage page so you can see exactly what it costs.

Versions are dated, not semantic - 2026.8 shipped in August 2026. Checking whether the service is up right now? See status.